We’ve seen many graphical and animated explainers for the Fourier series. We suppose it is because it is so much fun to create the little moving pictures, and, as a bonus, it really helps explain this ...

A mathematical theorem stating that a periodic function f(x) which is reasonably continuous may be expressed as the sum of a series of sine or cosine terms (called the Fourier series), each of which ...

Over at Quanta Magazine [Shalma Wegsman] asks What Is the Fourier Transform? [Shalma] begins by telling you a little about Joseph Fourier, the French mathematician with an interest in heat propagation ...

AT the thirty-second session of the Indian Science Congress, held at Nagpur in 1945, Dr. B. N. Prasad, president of the Section of Mathematics and Statistics, delivered an address on the summability ...

IN a letter to NATURE of October 6, Prof. Michelson, referring to the statement that a Fourier's series can represent a discontinuous function, describes 'the idea that a real discontinuity can ...